Strike The Zither - He Joan

Strike The Zither - He Joan

Strike the Zither is a reimagining of the Chinese military epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which a strategist must help her warlordess to victory against the rival kingdoms to the north and the south while overcoming her fate as written by the gods

Last Thing He Wanted (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking.It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp

Killer Cat Strikes Back (Fine Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Tuffy knows what he likes. And he doesn't like the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new classes. So what's a cat to do? A few scratches here just happen to shred a painting. A nudge there somehow slips a vase off a shelf. Dad hope a horribly lumpy clay pot will be next, but Tuffy's

Zero the Hero (Holub Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. That's what all the other numbers think of Zero. He doesn't add anything in addition. He's of no use in division. And don't even ask what he does in multiplication. (Hint: Poof ) But Zero knows he's worth a lot, and when the other numbers get into trouble, he swoops in to

V. (Harrison Tony)(Paperback)

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who becomes a foil for his own anger and

Black Hearts in Battersea (Aiken Joan)(Paperback / softback)

The Twite household, where Simon is lodging, seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a chance to open his glistening new paints Simon stumbles right into the centre of a plot to kill the King. Will they save the king in time?BACKSTORY: Test your knowledge of Black Hearts in Battersea and

Harry H. Corbett - The Front Legs of the Cow (Corbett Susannah)(Paperback / softback)

Widely respected as a stage actor, he became a leading light in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop until his life was changed by the television comedy Steptoe and Son. Overnight he became a household name as the series drew unparalleled viewing figures of over 28 million, with fans ranging from the

Man with a Seagull on His Head (Paige Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

A gull falls from the sky and strikes a council worker on the Essex beach below. He is obsessed, a crazed visionary repeatedly depicting the scene and the unknown figure within in it who filled his view at the moment of

Joan - Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (Fenwick Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The first biography of Joan Leigh Fermor, society beauty, professional photographer and

The White Album (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan

Dancing on the Edge (Murray Joan)(Paperback)

In her haunting fourth collection, National Poetry Series winner Joan Murray takes the challenge of performing poetry's original and still necessary tasks in the uncertain landscape of a new millennium. Widely praised for the exceptional humanity and technical virtuosity of her earlier collections,

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography (Quirk Lawrence J.)(Paperback)

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression

Joan Liftin: Water for Tears (Liftin Joan)(Pevná vazba)

This book compiles the works of American photographer Joan Liftin (born 1935)--from boys posing with a bust of Reagan in the Soviet Union in 1988 and images of brutality in the American South during the civil rights movement to more personal moments of her life with photographer Charles

Global Strike - A Strike Back Novel (3) (Ryan Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The third book in the Strikeback

Me on the Map (Sweeney Joan)(Paperback)

Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners (Bunning Joan)(Paperback)

Learning the Tarot, Joan Bunning offers a complete course in 19 lessons that covers the basics and then gradually goes into more advanced concepts. First published in 1998, Joan Bunning's Learning the Tarot has become a tarot classic. Written in a confident and natural style, the book communicates

Winged Pharaoh: A Far Memory Book (Grant Joan)(Paperback)

As a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny Far Memory, the ability to recall past incarnations who had lived in long-ago times and far-flung places. Her seven historical novels stand out for their vividness and rich detail. For Joan, these books were not works of the

Read My Desire - Lacan Against the Historicists (Copjec Joan)(Paperback / softback)

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines--psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge

The Miners' Strike (Harvey Mark)(Paperback)

In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coal miners' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the

The Empire Strikes Back (Harrison Rebecca)(Paperback)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the 'best' and most popular Star Wars movie. In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on previously unpublished archival research to reveal a variety of original and often surprising

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken Joan)(Paperback)

A thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aiken's classic children's novel, perfectly suited to performance by theatre companies and drama groups of any size. A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave and

The Trial of Joan of Arc (Hobbins Daniel)(Paperback)

No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her trial in 1431. Convened at Rouen and directed by bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial culminated in Joan's public execution for heresy. The trial record, which sometimes preserves Joan's very words,

White Album (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the

Joan Miro (Rowell Margit)(Paperback)

For nearly seven decades the ebullient art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramist and mythmaker, has intrigued and enchanted art lovers worldwide. This collection of his writings presents a portrait of the artist in his own words. Miro's notebooks, letters, and interviews